Ordinary Days #5: For our college bound granddaughter.

We fly away. (Psalm 90:10)

It’s not the big “fly away” that awaits us; but, even the little “fly away” provided by Southwest Airlines, is something of a wonder. We fly to Denver in the morning. I’m a bundle of nerves. One does not fly for the fun of it. We fly because there’s something special at the other end. In this case, it’s a celebration for our granddaughter who just graduated from High School and is on her way to Baylor University—what a smart, bright, believing wonder of a young woman. She’s worth flying away for.

It was said of Solomon the Wise that, “He composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five. He would speak of trees, from the cedar that is in the Lebanon to the hyssop that grows in the wall; he would speak of animals, and birds, and reptiles, and fish.” And that, “People came from all the nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon; they came from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom” (1K 4:31-34). 

That’s why she is off to Baylor—to learn the arts and sciences. Like Solomon’s first university that teaches Israel’s great poetry and songs (the arts); and studies the wonders of the natural world like “the cedars of Lebanon…” (botany and physics), and all sorts of “animals…” (biology, even entomology as in “Go to the ant and study her ways” Pr 6); and learns some of those 3,000 proverbs (psychology, philosophy and sociology). Because God created all things, all things are worthy of our study—it has to do with making one wise.